"GOD IS ALWAYS WITH YOU" AN INTERVIEW WITH FATHER ROMAN BRAGA my source: ...MONKS AND MERMAIDS (A BENEDICTINE BLOG) - May 4, 2015 ... 1920's -1950's. The Romanian people, I think, were always inclined toward the monastic way of life, because being monastic and leading a monastic type life does not mean only to go and live in a monastery. When Jesus was preaching the gospel: "…if you love your mother and father more than Me you are not worthy of Me…" or when Jesus said "…if you don't take your cross and follow Me you are not worthy of Me…," Jesus was not speaking to monks; monks did not exist at that ...http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.com/2015/05/god-is-always-with-you-interview-with.html